1976 in art

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Events

• Completion of the Cubist-influenced Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, by Fritz Wotruba.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley - Self Portrait in the Studio

Exhibitions

• 21 July - Opening of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. The inaugural exhibition Rooms presented in-situ works and installations by around 80 artists from the United States and abroad.

Works

• Vito Acconci - The Red Tapes
• R. B. Kitaj - From London
• Henry Moore - Three Piece Reclining Figure Draped (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Robert Ryman - Untitled (pastel and graphite on plexiglas with steel, 126.1 x 126.1 cm)
• Nabil Kanso - Faust (paintings) 1976 through 1979

Births

• 4 January - Shiro Amano, Japanese manga artist.
• 13 February - Martin Sastre, Uruguayan media artist.
• 23 November - Joy de Wit, Dutch painter

Deaths

January to March

• 1 February - Hans Richter, German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer (b.1888).
• 2 February - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (b.1903).
• 23 February - L. S. Lowry, English artist (b.1887).
• 3 March - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (b.1900).
• 12 March - Jacques Carlu, French architect and designer (b.1890).
• 25 March - Josef Albers, German artist, mathematician and educator (b.1888).
• 22 March - John McLaughlin, American hard-edge painter (b.1898).
• 31 March - Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (b.1890).

April to June

• 2 April - Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (b.1891).
• 24 April - Mark Tobey, American abstract expressionist painter (b.1890).
• 11 May - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b.1898).
• 28 May - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b.1922).
• 24 June - Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b.1883).

July to December

• 24 July - Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (b.1912).
• 31 October - Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer and architect (b.1878).
• 11 November - Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist (b.1898).
• 18 November - Man Ray, American artist and photographer (b.1890).
• 11 December - Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger (b. 1905).

Full date unknown

• Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter, enamelling master, sculptor and stage designer (b.1888).
• Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (b.1893).
• Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (b.1905).
• Charles Jourdan, French fashion designer (b.1883).
• François Ozenda, French painter (b.1923).

See also

• 1976 in fine arts of the Soviet Union